[Pkg-dkms-maint] [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Auto-building out-of-tree kernel modules

[Patrick Matthäi]

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Ben Hutchings schrieb:
>> Wasting time and bandwidth (fetching linux-headers etc)? Great...
> 
> Building obscure modules for every kernel flavour on Debian's own
> auto-builders is also a waste, especially when just one broken module
> breaks the whole conglomeration package.

It is a big difference if our auto-builders build them e.g. 12 times for
every architecture or if they have to be built on every end-consumer PC,
which are e.g. one million pcs. All those senseless lost of energy and
performance..

It is also not a good idea to switch to dkms, now where nothing is
decided or it may end like with ia32-apt-get with many wasted developer
ressources.

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